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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
LGH1TINGS FLASHED
And Dark Clouds Arose, Yet He
COULDN'T HEAR 1T THUNDER.

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Weeks, superintendent of DeKalb Pauper
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Superintendent DeKalb Pauper Home.
Decatur, Ca, May l, 1856.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

The action of the Committee will
most likely be sustained by the
House.
The trustees of the Blind Asylum
are anxious for the different counties
to send whatever blind children they
have between the ages of and II to
this institution. They will be we'll
cared for by the State, and would be
very greatly benefited by coming.
A bill of some importance was
considered by the Committee on
Finance Ways and Means of the
House yesterday, prohibiting the
bringing of divorce suits without
giving bond for costs. The bill was
recommended for passage by the COM
mittee.
The resolution rendering the Her
mitage proper to the Government as
a home for disabled soldiers was ia
bled yesterday in the House. This
settles the question for this session,
the property remains to be further
considered. A proposition is now
pending to sell the same, which will
also be defeated.
Things are working well now in
legislative matters. The bill for the
relief of druggists now pending is at
tracing considerable attention, and
the interest grows daily. Will they
be relieved of the tax,or not, is the
question. There are varied opinions
on the subject among the members
Some are warmly in favor of the re,
lief and some are warmly opposed
The druggists and their friends are
busy at work. 1t is not known def.
nitely when the bill will be called up
The majority of the Committee on
Finance, Ways and Means recon-
mend the rejection of the bill.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
Sam Cunningham Gets There.

Nashville American.
B. NJ. Hord, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, the new appointee, has ap.
pointed as his assistant Commissioner
for Middle Tennessee Mr.. S. E. Gun.
bingham, of Sparta. The appoint
ment has been definitely arranged for
several days, although not given tc
the public from the fact that Mr..
Hord wanted to make the appoint.
ments for East and West Tennessee
before making the announcement
officially.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

majority Of the people of the State,
and the fact that our usury law has
been dead letter on the statute books
for so long is sufficient evidence that it
is imperative and unpopular.
Should Senator Thompson's bill be-
come law it will drive every dollar
of surplus capital out of the State,
contract the volume of business in
every trade and industry, check the
progress of all enterprises, and eff
fectually destroy the boom in our
commercial and industrial develop
ment. The purpose of all laws should
be to protect the interests of the
people for whom they are made, and
not to depress or destroy those in
terests. There are a great many more
money borrowers than money lenders
In the state. Banks and individuals
cannot lend money in small sums for
short periods, at the rate of six per
cent. Any man with one grain OF
business sense recognizes this fact,
and if his need of money is sufficient
ly urgent to necessitate his borrow
ing, he is always willing to pay
market value for the use of the
money. If money is restricted by
law to rate of interest below its
market value, it will 60 out of the
state for investment, and farmers,
mechanics, laborers, and business
men of all classes who frequently
have to borrow will be the sufferers
The money lenders are independent
in the matter, for they can easily
send their money to other states
where more liberal policy in pur,
sued. Six per cent is very liberia
legal rate of interest, but the people
of the state should be allowed the
freedom of either borrowing or lend
ing money at higher rate when theil
interests will justify it, and the peopl,
are certainly better judges of theil
private business affairs than are tn,
members Of the General Assembly.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Nashville American.
The resolution instructing the Rail-
road Committee to draft and present
to the House bill in accordance with
the provisions ofthe Interstate Com
merce bill, was yesterday recommend
for adoption by that committee. The
purpose of the bill will be to- regulate
railroad traffic in the State according
to the spirit of the Interstate act just
passed.
The Committee on Public Grounds
and Buildings yesterday recommend
ed to the Senate and House, resolu-
tons rendering the Hermitage to the
Federal Government for rejection.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

A LARGE amount of back tax is
held against DIR. Ward on his school
property at Nashville, on the ground
that it is private. A bill is property
before the Legislature for his relief
which should, and most likely will,
pass. If schools are good thing for
a community and worthy of i'm
munity from taxation, we don't
see what difference it makes about
the ownership, whetherit be vested
in corporations, churches, or individ.
uals. Wards school has for many
years been one Of the biggest adver.
tisements for that city Nashville evel
had, and the state, county, and city
can well afford to release it from all
taxation.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
FEDERAL AID AND THE GOV
ERNOR.

Governor Taylor has been receiv-
ing good deal of censure from
number of papers of the State which
will doubtless not be sustained by the
cooler, calmer judgement of such pa
pers. There is, apparently, an in
consistency between the Governors
campaign speeches and his recent
message to the General Assembly, but
this apparent inconsistency vanishes
into myth when the matter is sifted
down to bottom facts. The following
from the West Tennessee Wing,
places the Governor in more favor
able and we think very proper and
conservative light. The Wing says:
From one end of the state to the
other the "Knlght of the White
Rose" in the campaign proclaimed
that he was in favor of national edu-
cation by the sale of the public do
main.
"What is the difference of his Ian
guage in the letter ofacceptance and
in the message? In the first he be-
lieves the surplus in the treasury
should be devoted to the payment of
the national debt, and the public do
main sold to educate the children; in
the latter, he says if there is a surplus
in the treasury not applicable to the
payment ofthe national debt it would
be a great blessing to the children if
appropriated to education, stripped of
federal supervision.
"The only difference is as between
tweedledum and tweedledee, the lat
ter being the quicker way to arrive
at the result, the intent being the
same.
"Gov. Taylor is not a convert of the
Blair bill, but stands substantially
where he has stood all the time, and
where very large per cent of the de-
mocracy of the state stand-national
aid for our children, but not federal
supervision"
The STANDARD opposed the Blair
Bill, not because it offered Federal
aid to education, but because it
coupled with its offer Federal super
vision of our schools. If Democratic
leaders will champion any measure
which will give us Federal aid with
out Federal supervision, we believe
eight-tenths of the Democracy OF
Tennessee would stand by such lead
ers. A careful perusal of the Gov
ernor's message does not warrant the
charge made by some of our ex-
changes, that he has changed front.
Upon clear view of the field we dc
not see that he has done any violence
to his original position, and we be-
lieve he will come out winner in the
fight.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

SENATOR THOMPSON has introduce
ed bill which has passed third read
ing in the Senate, giving grand juries
inquisitorial powers in usury cases.
We hope the members of the Lower
House will manifest superior Judge
ment, and defeat this cut-throat
measure. Our present usury law is a
dead letter on the statute books from
the simple fact that its enforcement
would work serious harm to every
business interest of the State. II
should be repealed, and a convention
al interest law substituted. 1t is the
heighth of folly to attempt to make
or enforce laws which are detrimental
in their workings to the interests of a
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
r. r. Yard Master.

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patent medicines were resorted to, yet the
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Her constitution finally became implicated,
the poison being in her blood.
secured a>bottle of B. b. B. and placed
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provement began at once, and her recovery
was rapid and complete. No other prepare.
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R. P. DODGE.
Yard.master Georgia Railroad,
Atlanta, Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

Senator Thompson's bill that passed
third reading in the Senate Friday
gives grand juries the right to send
out after witnesses in usury cases, and
to present the evidence taken in open
court, without any personal prosecu-
tor. Under its provisions anyone so
disposed might make public private
contract without the sufferer knowing
positively that he did it.-Nashville
American.
And somebody ought to take all
the Senators who voted for it out and
put wet towels on their heads. We
will send the Senator from Warren q
bottle of Persuader Oil Immediately
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
Dright's Disease.

| have been a sufferer from Kidney and
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and have had considerable swelling of my
legs and shortness of breath. The urea has
poisoned my blood also. secured and am
using (B. B. b. Botanic Blood Balm, and
find il acts powerfully and very quickly. and
| am delighted with its effects. have
previously used large quantity of various
advertised remedies and several eminent
physicians also waited on me, but B. B. B.
stands at the top.
JOHN H. MARTIN.
Rock Creek, Ala, May 4, 1886.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

NASHVILLE has new daily news.
paper called the Evening Telegram.
1t has four pages, with six columns
to the page, and presents a decidedly
neat and attractive appearance. 1t
published at 1Octs per week, or $500
year. Mr.. t. B. Medearis, former
ly of this place, is connected with the
business management.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

IT would require a very large table
to hold all the bills, resolutions, and
motions sent there by the Tennessee
Legislature. The members seem to
vie with each other in strenuous
efforts to table most every measure
that comes up for consideration
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

CHATTANOOGA is in another big
stew over the sale of Lookout Noun
tain. 1t is now claimed that 700 acres
of land on the mountain, including
the point, have been purchased by a
syndicate for $26O,OOO. Engineers are
surveying a railroad to the top of the
mountain,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

A COMMITTEE is at work on a new
hymn book for the Methodists. The
committee will meet in Nashville to
complete their work on the 26th of
April. The present hymn book of
that church has been in use forty
wears.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

Two pictures were purchased in a
junk shop in Nashville couple of
weeks ago for one dollar each. They
proved to be the productions of a
famous artist, Vernet, and were sold
to Partisan parties for $4,000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

A NUMBER of patent side papers
which have been publishing Tai
IMAGES sermons, got caught in a nice
trap last week. 1t seems the firm
which furnishes the patent sides has
been stealing these sermons, and SO
the house which publishes the ser.
mons by authority, sent out proofs OF
a bogus sermon, which was never de.
livered by Talmage at all. The
patent printing establishment fell into
the trap, and printed this bogus ser.
mon in all its list of patent sheets
They were thus convicted Of a fraud
ulent practice, and placed in very
embarrassing and unenviable posi-
ton.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

THE railroads are making haste to
take advantage of the Interstate
Commerce bill, and are declining to
make special rates for passengers to
large gatherings.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

THE members of the Tennessee
Legislature will barely have time to
get home or their free passes before
the Interstate Commerce bill goes
into effect.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

HEAVY storms have ragged through
the North and w est during the last
ten days. Thousands of cattle were
destroyed on the ranges of the West,
and good many human lives last.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

AN Amendment to the United
States Constitution by which U. S.
Senators will be elected by the
people direct, has been introduced in
the Tennessee Legislature by Judge
Williams. The measure is receiving
very favorable comment from all
sides, and will most likely be adopted
by our General Assembly. 1t will
then require the concurrence of the
General Assemblies of three-fourths
of the States in the union to become q
part of the constitution.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

SEVERE earthquake shocks in
Southern Europe, Wednesday, de-
stroyed many buildings, and buried
several hundred people in the ruins.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

WEDNESDAYS Nashville Ameri-
can contains the publication of a
rumor that the Richmond & Danville
Railway Company had purchased Of
the Louisville & Nashville Company
their interest in the Nashville &
Chattanooga Railway. Nashville
has no competing lines, as every rail-
road entering that city is under the
control of the l.. & N. If this rumor
proves correct, it will be a grand
stroke for Nashville, but it is most
too good to be true.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

In the lower house of Congress
Thursday the attempt to. pass the de-
pendent Pension Bill over the Presi-
dents veto failed.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

JOHN SHERMAN has been invited
to visit Nashville and make speech
before the Legislature adiourns.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

The life of the present Congress
will expire next Friday. That will
will be one lucky Friday, anyhow.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

A BLIND man in Nashville named
Scruggs has cleared 100000 during the
last five months in real estate transac-
lions.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

1T is amusing to read McCord and
Littleton's abuse of each other.
They burn the air with lurid adject-
ives and whitening anathemas.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

NAsHvILLE's new daily, the Tele-
gram, had better draw in its sail on
sensationalism right away, or it will
founder in shallow water before its
gets far enough from port to realize
that it ever made a start over the
sea of journalism. Its article of Tues
day under the flaming head of "a
Lost Woman" was the most morbid
attempt at sensationalism we have
read lately. 1t did not contain a
particle of information, and there was
no excuse whatever for its publica-
ton.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
DR.. ]. B. Rltchey, Agricultural Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
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We do not publish anonymous commu.

We do not publish anonymous commu.
nications under any circumstances. The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con-
signed to the waste basket. We do not pub
fish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee Of coed faith:
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib'
vertising matter. Simple announcements of
deaths, marriages. ETC., will be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

WoN'T Col. Savages please lead our
young Senator away out in the back
yard of the Capitol some quiet moon
light night, and in kind, fatherly
way, advise him not to keep SO much
company with old man Thompson
and Button Tolley. There is a nice
little nursery tale In some of the old
school books about faithful watch
dog who once got into trouble by
keeping bad company.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

OUR Senator from Warren had bet
ter come home and talk with his
constituents awhile before hevotes for
any more such measures as Senator
Thompson's usury bill. If our Sena-
tor needs political mentor, let him
select a man who belongs to the cur
rent century, and not follow after the
ignis fatuus ideas of such old sore
heads as that fossiliferous remnant Of
antiquity from Wilson county.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26

From the present indications the
county lines all over the State will be
very seriously mutilated, as nearly
every member wants his county line
changed.-Nashville American.
No change of the Warren county
line has been proposed yet, nor will
there likely be any. Our county line
describes perfect circle, being the
most unique county in the United
States, and we don't want any
monkeying with it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-02-26
O. M. Thurman & Sons.
School Property
For Sale or Lease

Irving College is located miles from Nc.
Mnnville, in Warren County, Tenn, in
thickly settled neighborhood, beautifully
situated in q healthy, prosperous section of
country, The property consists of or 6
acres of ground under good fence, nev9e
failing spring of freestone water; a brick
college building 30x5O feet, one tWB storss
frame building for boarding house, with y
rooms, % brick dormitories. This entire
property will be sold for $200O00, or leased
for term of years on favorable terms. For
further information call on or address.
G. w. MEAD, Sec'y and Treasurer.
Shellsford, Tenn.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-03-19
The Fees Lecturers Receive.

Henry Ward Beecher has received
more money for lectures than any
ether man on the platform record.
He has been lecturing for forty
years, his fees having increased from
$50 to 5000, and the aggregate
amount being estimated at $4,000
Most Of this money, however, has
been lost. Greedy paid for Chappa.
qua by his lectures Bayard Tay
Tor cleared in the same manner S.
500 in one season. Tilton used to
deliver fifty lectures in q season at
SIS to $500. Josh Billings had all
she engagements he wanted at 500,
aHd left an estate of $75, 900, all made
after he had passed 46. Chaplin
made $4,000 by his lectures and
Emerson got rich in the same man
ner. Anna Dickinson was at one
time worth $4,000, all made by lee
snres, but ii was lost through mis-
management. Mark Twain has made
between $4,000 and $50, 900 by his
cctures.-Neto York HAL and En-
gr1ess
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-03-19
TEN-PlN ALLEY.

The third parcel being the residue of said
property and lying Immediately south of
the ten-pin alley lot Alter offering sa d
property for sale in said parcels IL will be
offered as a whole. and sold in whichever
way it will bring the most money.
For further description of the lands herein
advertised reference Is made TO said four
deeds and to the plat filed with the reports
If partition in said ohancery cause
The above property is sold With the con-
seat entered on the record OF said cause, OF
sarah Hooper, and will be free from her life
estate therein.
TERMS OF SALE -One-fourth cash in
hand, and the residue upon credit OF six,
twelve and eli ghteen months, the purchaser
being required to execute on the day of sale,
h's three bonds, with good personal security
each or one.third OF the deferred payments
bearing interest from dste.
BENZ. F MARTIN,
FRANK WOODS
Special Commissioners.
John S. & Herr, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Taylor County, certify that BENZ f.
Martin and Frank Woods, commissioners,
have executed the bonds required by the de-
cree OF said Court named IN the foregoing
advertisement Given under my hand this
l4th day of March 1887
JN0. s. S. HERR, Clerk,
Mar l9-tds
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-03-19
Republican Gains in Virginia

To the Franklin County State
Senatorial district Republican Sena-
hor has just been elected by twenty
ave majority. This district gave
Governor Lee 1000 majority little
more than year ago. Democrats
account for the great change by al
leging that people are dissatisfied
with Cleveland's Administration and
with she Local Option law passed by
the hast Legislature A bill will be
offered at the opening of the special
session Of the Assembly to repeal this
law.